Le Vocabulaire

Rendre visite = to visit (a person). Recall that to visit a place, one uses visiter.

Un de ces jours = one of these days.

Puissent = can. This form is the third person plural [elles, ils] subjunctive of the irregular verb pouvoir.

Soit = is. This form is the third person singular [on, il, elle] subjunctive of the irregular verb être.